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Where Will It Lead Us To?
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JOINING THE POLICE
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Journalists, for it would be im- possible for a criminal-being a policeman-to commit a crime. Otherwise he'd have to arrest him-
clear that matter up by making self for it. But we could easily
the magistrates policemen too.
And look how it would save many a promising young mon from becoming a real policeman.
courage with which it has been stated. As at present formulat- ed it has in it something of the counsel of despair as regards Japan and more than a tinge of idealism as regards the nation.
By Eddie P.C. Kally. It may well be, however, as Mr. Wang says, that time is on the
CCORDING to a report by side of China in the military PHE case of the Wongneichong | new land offered him as
the LG.P. the Hongkong struggle, both in so far as it may Squatters is given due aym-pensativo alternative. Blandish police force has now reached its be regarded as a war of attri-pathy, but poignant an are some menta and expiation on the beaut-old level. The force is still 20 tion and in so far as the moral of the details connected with their fes of the new landscape-on the short of the required number of verdict of the world given in history, they have little claim on irrefutably better fungakui quali- China's favour may be followed
European officers, however. this utilarian and hard-headed | tien-leave him unmoved, and by material pressure on Japan. age. Beyond personal compensat-after considerable time and labour With a full Force the Depart- The internal reconstruction of the nation Mr. Wang recognises on in one form or other-tradi-expended in taking him from placement thinks it will be able to to be a long task: and his solutions served and olo custom entis-to place without hia rostad object- cope with any crime wave in
overcome, monetary. Hongkong. tion is altogether too shallow fied-the business would seem to lion being
As we be the unending one of building compensation is, hold out. A{ and too political a one.
But why not make sure of things. understand his insistence upon houses and still more houses to once we see the appeal which this Let every man be his own police. district autonomy, he hopes in what end goodness knows, except last resort makes to the cupidity man-and overy woman, for that this way to educate the people that it seems to us old-timers that of human nature. He accepts the matter. for political action. The coun-this need for accommodation can offer with almost unbecoming Let's all join the Police Force. try must be delivered from war-never be satisfied for the aager alacrity, taken the money to Yau-Help us to help you. lord feudalism which is perhaps masses pouring in here from an mati or some other lively Joint,
Of course, the transformation the perverted political form of over-populated and unsettled bint- and the next morning creeps back provincial federation. The goverland.
of Hongkong into an unarmed ́ his friends and relatives, crnment must be centralised and
camp of khaki-clad bobbies would be effective throughout the
came penitent and wiser, but sadly eventually result in unemployment Perhaps that day may country if it is to avoid the con- carlier than anticipated when this poorer for a heetle time in among the magistracy and the tinual splitting up of the country Colony will have reached satura-gambling den. into opposed fragments such as tion point, and no, more building IN OTHER we see in Canton and Szechuan
is available save at the SURROUNDINGS. at present. Yet the people must be welded into an intelligent self-sacrifice of health and sanity. HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE, governing democracy, economi- Then the qucation will again have
cally self-supporting, and locally been anked--this time regretfully been the metamorphysis from self-protecting, forming univer-why there has not been a more sal gendarmeric to preserve the ordered scheme of things provid-more than one New Territories peace of the countryside and to ing not only for the city dweller vast suppress brigandage. This is a but also for his cousin in the Waterworks necessitated changes large programme and unfortun-country-Why
agricultural and affecting the lives of the country- ately it requires, above all, men rural districts have not been folk around. The reverse of the
In three years there would be of ability and probity in large equally well served as the in-picture is more agreeable. It is pleasing to observe the acceptance numbers, so that not only the terests of the one are intimately by the majority of the offer, nere no crime for the simple reason central government but every interlocked with the claims of the for acre, of alternative land else that every household in every district may be purged of graft other? We shall then return to a where, and for them the sacrifice street in every part of the Colony and corruption and the people
much LA would be a household of police- sel free to live unmolested and contemplation of the case of these has been fightened as
understanding to take an unhindered share in humble Squatters whom we to-day District Officer in charge of the men and policewomen whose sole object in life would be to prevent WANG CHING-WEI
public life. The sad truth is deny, and then we exclaim that. exodus. We then see ---IDEALIST. that the standard of public life after all, they too had fulfilled a more nolidly constructed huts built others doing to them what they has degenerated since the days useful, though small, part in the for them as at Shatin and elec-would do to others if the others
where, and there perhaps they may would give them the chance. While Mr. Wang Ching-wei of the Manchus. Not only are scheme of things. Then the arm be content to remain until the Look at all the difficulties it was receiving medical treatment officials generally known to be pathy now not too readily extend-inexorable march of Progress would solve. Cabarets would au- recently in Germany he was re-corrupt and the rule of law held fed will have been accorded, and brings it may be, another up-tomatically close because, being ported as making within the in contempt, but the party or that because we shall by that time heaval.
policemen, we wouldn't want to space of only a few days two ganisations are controlled by be also in a sorry state ourselves.
go to them. With the Philosopher e quite divergent statements.men who are mere parasites on
shall, however say that sufletent į The traffle problem would be Before Japan advanced into the life of the people. A poor THIS FRENZIED
solved unto the day is the evil thereof,
immediately. Everybody. Jehol he said that, Chinn was type of man is found in the local' BUILDING.
and shall content ourselves with could go on point duty at every not prepared for war and must,tang-pu, yet he has the privilege
making the best of contemporane intersection in the Colony, 60 in the meantime, bow to superior of interfering with the work of has been helped by allied agents, therefore, it seems fitting that motor cars.
This frenzied house building ous changes. For the present there wouldn't be any need for force, give her attention to nn- the magistrate and practically tional reconstruction and hope to exercises
The cumshow brigade would au- him, chief amongst which is an exten-something should be done over
these benighted rural tomatically become-Sh—sb-while arm herself to win back in the How far the calling of the sive road-building. No new dis-educate
could be attached future the provinces she had Plenary Conference of the Kuo-trict is being opened up but doca folk to the scientific improvements civil servante
becoming increasingly necessary to the detective force-that is, the lost. Within a few days news mintang at this time is due to not open up more opportunities for day by day. The time may not be detective farce......well, have it came of the new Japanese ad- Mr. Wang is not clear but pre-the property investor than the far distant when, preased by your own way, vance and stirred to a feeling of [sumably it springs from the con-agriculturist. The process con-building encroachments, adequate On second thoughts, we think patriotic desperation, he declared cordat between him and Chiang tinues inexorably. Land values agricultural space, if the Colony that someone should be left out that the only thing to do was to Kai-shek. Not much has been rise magically with every foot ad- not to be entirely dependent on of the scheme, in order to give resist to the uttermost regard- [minde public of its purpose.
outside supplies, will have becomeus some practice. The vanced into rustic territory, and a dire necessity, and the injunction less of the inadequacy of the national crisis is sufficient to the country bumpkin is left gaping now treated with some levity will Instead of the shroffs hunting resources or the strength of the justify it and another attempt at the aggression. Civic necessit-be the deadly serious one of learn- us do at the end of every jenemy, braving defent if defeat at national unity would be 1
must come, but not submitting sufficient goal to get before it. ies like waterworks do not impressing how to grow two blades of month, let's make them the cri before the insolence of the ng-The most interesting suggestion him much since he has been get-grass where one flourishes before. minals.
There is much rejoicing in the |gressor. He came back to China so far made to be brought before ting all he requires from the old
to resume the post of Prime it is the recognition of other village well or from the pool on fact that some of our leading re- sidents have paid special attention Minister. (President of the parties than the Kuomintang. the hillside. (In which conviction to this agricultural side of Executive Yuan) which Mr. T. V. This has long been urgently re-it is observed he does not stand munal expansion. By the introduc Soong had been holding conjoint-quired if China is to be made anlone, bat shares it with his pigs tion of chemical fertilizers, of im ly with the Finance Ministry democracy and if outstanding and poultry). during his absence. His arrival citizens like Professor Hu Shih
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Hongkong, May 13. ported stock to improve the local you to send me out the hamper of Darling-It was thoughtful of breeds, they are attempting to take Home delicacies. One does get
In this
coincided with the movement, Jare to be brought in. Doubtless For a time after being dislodged time by the forelock. By results nick of this eternal Eastern diet supported by some strong Kuo- any such proposal will bo from the ancestral home, he wan-will these scientific methods be of rice and chop suey. The pen mintang organisations, to res- anathema to the orthodox Party ders around disconsolate, is not appreciated, and then will the nuts and cigarettes, especially. tore to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek men and, apart from other con-prepared in fact to be console course of time, be comforted and to obtain such luxuries
newly-educated Squatter, In the were acceptable, as it is so hard the sole command of all the siderations, would be sufficient to and pay's scant attention to reconciled to the new order of forces of the country, military, alienate Mr. Hu Han-min who, endeavours to interest him in the things.
part of the world. naval and air, and to make him from his residence in Hongkong,
Did I tell you in my last letter Dictator with full power to stem exerta so great an influence on
that I had joined the Muskee Club. It is a friendly association here the Japanese advance. It was Cantonese politics.
for the protection of all Europeans this proposul, we do not doubt,
against the dangers and evils of which caused the sudden hitch
the Far East. Nearly everyonė joins after their first six months in Hongkong. It has a sort of restraining "count ten" influence on its members, and prevents us from making hasty decisions. For instance, one of the rules of the Club is that you must nover do to-day what, you can put of until to-morrow,
in the negotiations for Wang
Controlling the Drug
Traffic
Ching-wei's resumption of office and his abrupt return to Shang- hai from Nanking, For Wang One of the most interesting Ching-wei not only thinks that items of news in recent cables there is little or no hope of from abroad recorded the fact defeating Japan; he thinks that twenty-six nations have that were the infliction of such finally ratified that international a defeat possible, it might be at convention under which the Lea- too great a cost. He holds that gue of Nations will be able to China to save her national life control world manufacture and may have to lose it and that to distribution of narcotics. Under win through the institution of a this scheme, a board established military dictatorship would put by the league will set strict off indefinitely the securing of limits on the amount of narco- the fruits of the revolution. He tic drugs which each nation will may be described as a revolu- be allowed to produce and distri
He bute. tionary constitutionalist.
This, incidentally, is steadily pursues the aims of the something new.in world affairs, révolution. Whether he still for the plan undeniably is an holds, that Dr. Sun Yat-sen and infringement upon the national his party were right in placing sovereignty of the governments the development of a national involved. But it represents a spirit and the assertion of great step forward. Until the China's independence of foreign world supply of narcotics is put nations first and internal recon-under definite control, no nation struction second, we cannot.say.or Colony can handle the illicit But he does not let go of the drug trade within its own bord- second aim. And accordingly heers effectively. A aplendid new has wrought out, and, we may implement has been put in the believe, carried Chiang Kai-shek hands of those who are waging with him, the policy of resist-war on the drug curse. This is ance to Japan (which he is care- the plan which Sir Eric Drum- ful to distinguish from war) and mond suggests should be adapt- simultaneously the economic and ed to the needs of armaments political reconstruction of the manufacture. Is it too much to nation. We cannot withhold ad-expect that two such efforts to- miration from this policy and wards civilisation can be accept- the considerable frankness and ed by the world in a short time?
"I wish you'd stop worrying about these Invoices. Don't
you ever think of anything but your work?"!
Although I have only been in Hongkong three months I had my first experience with the dreaded Shroff Tonga the other day. You'll remember I mentioned them in a previous letter. I was in the of- fice, speaking to my friend Edward Kelly when they descended on us. Kelly sworo at them and told them to got to the devil, but, honestly, dear, I didn't have the courage. They demanded $125 ransom, and rather than argue, I paid. They seem to be afraid of Kelly, for they loft him alone after he swore at them. This particular band have their headquarters at one of the scenic resorts of Hongkong, a place named Lano Crawford's or as wo would say at Home, Craw- ford's Lane. (The Chinese always. wrlto their words back to front). Both Kelly and I have received threatening demands from the Shroff Tongs that Inhabit O-Tell Poninsula, but Kelly told me never to worry about those sort of things,
Must Anish off now, dear, as the Pando is waiting for my letter. More of my experiences next week, If I am still alive in this treacher- ous place. Yours evor-